Amiga MCC

The Amiga MCC ( Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer ) was a computer designed by Amiga International in 1999 , which was supposed to make the Amiga brand computers competitive again. A design draft was presented to the public at the World of Amiga '99, but the technical specifications were not known until later.

Development goals

Since 1998 it has been the declared goal of Amiga International to pave the way for a new computer revolution with the development of a new computer. Internet applications and a completely new network system should be an integral part of the operating system.

With the development of the computer, the conviction was accompanied that more and until then usual at Amiga using so-called custom chips would not have led to the now occurring technological lead standard PC - Hardware catch up. Therefore, one relied on building blocks that had already proven themselves on other systems or were further developments of the same. The American company Pentagram Design was responsible for the housing design of the computer .

software

The Canadian company QNX Software Systems was initially commissioned to develop the new operating system (" AmigaOS 5.0", later "AmigaSE 1.0") . In July 1999 the cooperation with QNX was terminated because the Amiga management had come to the conclusion that Linux would be the better kernel for the Amiga. QNX then made the technology behind the newly developed operating system available to Amiga developers.

In addition to the Amiga Software Environment ( AmigaSE ), the system should also include Amiga objects , an object-oriented programming that was most closely related to the classic AmigaOS, which also worked with program libraries.

End of the Amiga MCC

In September 1999 Jim Collas left Amiga International for personal reasons. With his departure, the development of the Amiga MCC also ended.

Technical Equipment

system

• ATX format - motherboard
• Transmeta - CPU
• 32 megabytes of system RAM

graphic

• Advanced SuperScalar Rendering 2D and 3D Hardware Accelerators ( ATI )
• 32 MB 128-bit frame buffer
• Resolutions up to 1920 × 1200 pixels

Audio / video

• DVD drive
• MPEG 2 hardware acceleration
• Real time video compression
• Analog TV ( NTSC / PAL / Secam ) input, digitization
• TV tuner
• S-video and composite video input / output
• 44 kHz, 16-bit CD stereo / audio input / output
• Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding
• Dolby digital output

Storage media

• Two E-IDE Ultra-DMA interfaces

Internal interfaces

• at least 2, maximum 6 PCI interfaces
• 3.5 "drive bay

External interfaces

• Infrared
• Audio-in
• Touchscreen controller
• 7 USB ports, two of them on the front

communication

(all modules optional)

• V.90 56 kbit / s modem
• 100/10 Mbit / s Ethernet
• HomePNA 2.0
• 2.4 GHz WiFi
• Cable modem / DSL modem / ISDN modem
• digital satellite decoder

Web links

• Website with a lot of information about the Amiga MCC (English)

swell

• Technical specifications: amigaOS - the specialist magazine for amiga users, issue 09.1999, page 25

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The British trade fair under the sign of AmigaMCC and AmigaOS 3.5: World of Amiga '99, in: amigaOS - the specialist magazine for amiga users, issue 09.1999, pages 24 to 27
2. ↑ ^{a b} Amiga chooses Linux as the new kernel in: amigaOS - the specialist magazine for amiga users, issue 08.1999, page 26
3. ↑ Quo Vadis, Amiga? Jim Collas has gone to: amigaOS - the specialist magazine for amiga users, issue 10.1999, page 30